The UC Marketing Capstone Experience

January 30, 2012

Drama and Distractions

When I started thinking about this week’s blog post I had a hard time coming up with how I could write about anything that happened this week without acknowledging the drama that surrounded our group. I’m not going to spend my time, or your time reading this, talking badly about another group member. However, I will say that I felt very disrespected by another person’s words and actions this week. I used my blog post last week to talk about camaraderie and how Marihelen and I felt like our group was on track to start building a really good working relationship. It seems that our projection was a little premature. It still completely boggles my mind how these kinds of things can happen at this level.

Needless to say, I felt like I spent a lot of my week trying to refocus my energy on things that were not directly related to these issues. After we completed the tasks that we HAD to get done this week (amongst all of the drama) I think I subconsciously started distracting myself with other projects. Right after all of the drama started to unfold I was approached by four DAAP Master of Design students to join their team for a design competition in Toronto in March. And because I need just one more thing to do in the next 6 weeks, I accepted. These four DAAP students are extremely intelligent and talented and I think that one of the biggest reasons I accepted this challenge was because I wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to work with these people and learn from them. I had met all four of them last quarter in our Live Well studio but I only had the chance to work in a group with one of them. The decision to enter this competition was very last minute, but I am looking forward to the challenge. This, along with planning for the spring break program in Austria/Czech Republic, has served as a much needed distraction. And yet, when I look back on the events of the last week I still find myself shaking my head in disbelief of all the drama.